I confess. I was an addict. At my lowest point I estimate I was drinking around five to seven cans of Pepsi Max a day. Now I mostly drink water, but that brand loyalty burns in my soul. I still maintain that Pepsi is better than Coke. Many people say I am wrong. Let’s settle this eternal debate once and for all.
Either way, I don’t miss those days of putting all that fizz into my gut. I can’t believe I used to put three litres of that stuff in my belly every day.
Drop your vote here and, if you feel like continuing the debate in the comments feel free!
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122 responses to “The Big Question: Coke Or Pepsi”
I like Pepsi better than Coke. I **think** its a bit sweeter, and I’m a total sweet-tooth. Not that I don’t like Coke, but if I had to choose…
Coke is better than Pepsi, but Pepsi Max is better than Coke Zero (which is filth).
Diet Coke is okay, but does Diet Pepsi even exist any more?
I used to drink loads of Coke Zero – but Pepsi Max seems to be fizzier.. zero seems kinda flat the last few times I’ve had it. Pepsi Next and Diet Coke both suck.
Agree on the “full strength” versions though – don’t like standard Pepsi at all.
Completely agree, except the Diet Coke being ok part, it’s far worse than Zero
Pepsi Max is the Diet Coke equivalent, Pepsi Next was their Coke Zero competitor (and they both suck)
Not so much. Diet Coke’s equivalent was Diet Pepsi, which is now know as Pepsi Light, these have zero calories. Pepsi Max and Coke Zero are equivalents with both having max/real taste while also having zero calories.
Not sure how it works with Pepsi, but Coke Zero is the normal Coke formula substituting the sweetener with artificial stuff, while Diet Coke uses the terrible New Coke formula from the US with artificial sweetener.
Pepsi Next is sweetened with stevia and has 1/3 or the calories as the full strength stuff, the Coke equivalent will be called Coke Life.
Back to the topic at hand, Coke is the nectar of the gods, but not so good for the waist line, Pepsi Max is king of the low calorie drinks.
Then what’s Diet Pepsi?
Coke. The entire Pepsi range is sickly sweet and kind of syrupy. Very much dislike it to the point of avoiding eating at places that serve it like KFC.
I’m the complete opposite. Coke is incredibly sickly sweet and syrupy for me while Pepsi has a cleaner (For the better of two evils that is) taste. Of course there are a surprising number of variables such as container (eg. glass tastes better than plastic tastes betterthan mixed tastes better than can) and variant. (eg. Coke Zero tastes like medicine but avoids the syrupy sweetness of the main product.)
It’s funny how different people can experience taste. I find cucumber disgusting and completely overpowering in any dish it’s in while people stare at me funny saying it’s nigh on tasteless.
I find cucumber refreshing, @gutsoup ‘s Mrs is the same as you.
I saw somebody just munching on a cucumber like it was an apple the other day. I found that weird
Coke better than Pepsi
Pepsi max better than Coke Zero/Diet Coke
Lift.
Solo!
😉
Coke… how is this even in question?
+1 Thankyou
Because your wrong 😛 its Pepsi all the way.
CarryGrant-GetOut.jif
Ginger Beer.
Thanks to caffeine screwing with my blood pressure I haven’t had coke or pepsi (or coffee 🙁 ) since 2011
I raise you Bundaberg Ginger Beer!
Cascade > Bundaberg
Red Dragon Organics Living Elixir Turmeric Ginger Beer > everything
http://www.reddragonorganics.com.au/our-products/organic-living-elixir
Also re-badged at Olivers, which I frequent at the Sydney-Newcastle freeway Caltex.
I MUST TRY THIS!!
I’m a fan of https://shrubandco.com/product/spicy-ginger-16-oz/ mixed with soda. It’s like chewing pure ginger root – awesome!
Living Elixir is quite fizzy and not so sweet, but that Turmeric & Ginger combo is dynamite 🙂 I think it also has ginseng or something in it, sort of like an energy drink without the caffeine.
I looked up that Shrub & Co and it seems to cost a bit – $32.90 incl. shipping for one bottle. Can you get it in Australia?
Yeah, http://www.onlybitters.com/shrub-co-spicy-ginger-shrub-473ml/
It is expensive, but quite concentrated so it lasts a while. It’s really meant for cocktails and is vinegar based, but it is delicious.
Have you or @zambayoshi tried Gin Gins
Tried them when I needed something my wife could have while in hospital. So good. So gingery.
http://gingerpeople.com/gin-gin-candies.html
I haven’t but looks fantastic! I personally like a bit of chocolate with my edible ginger, like http://dlea.com.au/dark-chocolate-ginger.html
Those are nice but find I need to be in more of a dessert mood to have them. Gin Gins are an all day food 🙂
Oh and if you do try them, have the chewy ones, takes ages to finish one and the ginger flavour lasts the entire time
Get out…
Fine. I need to go get some cascade ginger beer anyway 😉
For Apple Cider: Cascade > Bundaberg
For Ginger Beer: Bundaberg > Cascade
Totally agree, Cascade is awesome. Don’t rule out Kirks, their ginger beer is right up there. It’s especially refreshing when you get a special at Woolies for $5 for 10 cans :o)
Pepsi with KFC, Coke with everything else.
I once didn’t get a drink with my KFC and drinking Coke with it was just… wrong.
I miss KFC 🙁 Damn gluten intolerance.
Back when I was a boy, KFC served Coke.
What an age we lived in! I remember when they even had a Buffet!
Whaaaaa?!
That would have been the best!
PPl just used to eat the skin and leave the chicken, we used to go there for luch after snorkling on Sunday mornings
It was always too oily & Yuck.
Back when I was a boy, Maccas served chicken just like KFC. Oh, and coke.
Ugh, KFC is wrong. No offense to those that eat there, but it does not agree with my stomach.
I don’t get that at all.
I do from both MacDonald s & HIs though.
You have to eat it every now and then to remind yourself why you shouldn’t eat it!
Pepsi Max > Pepsi > Coke
Sunkist = Fanta
Solo > Lift
Mountain Dew > … Everything
Sodium Benzoate FTW!
[For the record, I still love mountain dew too….. but I’m still not sure about how safe sodium benzoate is to be drinking, :p ]
I’ll let you know in 40 years when I die of benzene related cancers. :p
Yeah, it’s in gosh darn everything citrus-y flavoured too, it seems. I bought some sugar-free Coola Lime cordial to mix with some soda water the other day. Yup, sodium benzoate…..
I’ve cancelled an entire order at KFC when I found out thy didn’t have mountain dew left & went to another store.
Pepi
It never ceases to suprise me that people like Mountain Dew.
It never ceases to surprise you that people like things that you do not?
No, not generally. I just consider that Mountain Dew is flat out objectively awful
Mountain dew was better before they started loading it with caffeine.
Tend to agree with you on that one, which is weird because when I first started drinking soft-drinks it was in the USA where Mountain Dew has always been caffeinated. You’d think I’d be used to it, but I much preferred the “original” Australian variety.
Adding caffeine to things has become ‘cool’ I think they’re just trying to keep up with the energy drinks. I do enjoy Mountain Dew, but I don’t drink it much now that they’re added caffeine. (Not that I’m against caffeine, I just don’t think it’s required in MD)
To be fair though, the original Mountain Dew has 55mg of caffeine which is higher than most “standard” soft drinks. Australia was one of the few places to sell the Free version as default (Canada was another because of restrictions on non-Cola soft drinks having caffeine) – all they’ve done is bring the product in line with other regions.
Really? I didn’t know that. Thanks for the info.
I feel bad turning my nose up at caffeine free coke now haha
YEEEEAH Mark, Pepsi Max for the win! I had the same problem, managed to ween myself off it a few years ago. A friend of mine and her partner still have a single Pepsi Max each at precisely midday every day without fail. Midday is no longer midday, it’s ‘Pepsi Max Time’ apparently (usually yelled, with comical enthusiasm)
and for the record, i reckon:
Pepsi Max > Coke > Coke Zero > Pepsi > Diet Coke > any caffeine free variety
If we’re talking straight Coke vs Pepsi, then Pepsi. If we talk containers, glass is better than plastic is better than can and Coke from a glass bottle tastes about the same as Pepsi from a can. If we talk variants then it gets a bit murky and I’d have to take a long time to decide between Pepsi Max and Vanilla Coke… It’s an incredibly complex question.
It’s odd that Coke and Pepsi taste so different depending on what container they’ve come from. 600ml coke always tastes a little off to me,
I always preferred glass coke.
dislike plastic bottles.
Coke comes in baggies too….
pepsi over coke, but cherry coke over cherry pepsi
Neither. I’ve hardly had any cola since primary school, totally went off it entirely. Might have another taste extremely infrequently, but that reminds me why I stopped in the first place.
Well, mostly. I still rarely have it, but in the case of mixing drinks then you’ve gotta go with coke. Southern Comfort makes it drinkable 😛 Otherwise Vanilla Coke was decent, and I think Pepsi Next was ok. I’d still rather a Solo though. Or ginger beer. Or lemon lime and bitters. Or sarsaparilla.
Horses for courses. I find Pepsi Max is better out of can, Coke Zero is better out of a plastic bottle.
I love Coke and dislike Pespi. My Coke intake is down to ‘use public holiday as excuse’ level of consumption these days 🙁
I prefer Coke but will drink either.
Can’t stand unbranded Cola, we.
I have always preferred Cock… I mean Coke…. though either can be good
Pepsi Max is like crack for me.
SO Pepsi is like Coke?
In a way, yes. But not Pepsi, Pepsi Max… perhaps they sprinkle some Coke dust into it or something.
I’m actually surprised there’s this many pepsi fans out there, not even having a dig. I thought it was universal that coke was “better” and pepsi was just a cheaper alternative.
Onto personal taste (in order)
– Coke, Coke Zero, Pepsi Max, Pepsi, Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi
But to be honest if a place doesn’t have coke or coke zero I either begrudgingly drink a pepsi or just opt for water.
Side side point. I’ve taken a personal challenge of not having soft drinks or beer for 3 months. It’s been surprisingly easy.
I prefer Pepsi over Coke, but yeah I too used to consume copious amounts of Pepsi Max. Until my dentist told me I was eroding my teeth away (turns out even sugar free black cola drinks rot your teeth). I still drink it now and then but nowhere near what I used to…and when I do I usually need to drink through a straw.
Dont they have a lot of acid and thats what does it? I’ve been weaning myself off it recently. I could easily drink a 2 litre bottle a day if I was being gluttonous.
Neither, I only drink water now and have lost 12kg in the three months since doing so.
That’s impressive! I rarely drink soft-drink now that I know how much sugar is in it! Seriously, it is terrifying to think that I could sit down with some take-away chips and a 2-litre bottle of Coke after school and finish the lot.
http://www.sugarstacks.com/beverages.htm
If its straight Its always Diet Coke (never Zero), but if its mixed with something, then its the full sugar version of Coke.
Cant Drink Jack Daniels with Diet coke, it just doesnt taste right
Sugar based = Coke
Sweetner based = Pepsi Max
Pepsi on it’s own tastes a bit better. Coke is better when mixed with things
There can be only one… Dr Pepper 🙂
For something with a little alcoholic kick, Stone’s Ginger Joe Ginger Beer
Glass beats can, can beats plastic. No diet or sugar-free versions allowed.
Dr Pepper and Root Beer [being widely available at every supermarket]. 2 of the things I miss most from the USA.
I don’t know about your area, but almost all the Coles around where I live (Brisbane) sell cans of Dr Pepper. You have to go to the international section for it and its close to $2 a can, but its there.
Yeah, and it’s the same for me – Dr Pepper is available if you look for it, but I wouldn’t call it “Widely” available. To me, “Widely” available means every store that stocks CocaCola products has it, in 1.25 and 2L varieties as well as slabs of cans, etc. “Single can purchases on the bottom shelf of the speciality aisle” doesn’t quite fit.
I remember when they started selling it in Australia and Australian consumers were on a “Love It / Hate It” dichotomy.
I agree with this 99%, the other 1% is that when it comes to Vanilla Coke, can beats all. I dunno why, but Vanilla Coke from a can tastes sooooo much better than Vanilla Coke from a bottle.
@markserrels – Doesn’t your herritage dictate that you must prefer Irn-Bru?
Pepsi Max * 1,000,000
Crab juice.
There’s a drug called pepsi?
While i prefer Coke, if Pepsi is on special I’ll buy it instead.
I have a story. Back home there’s a takeaway shop that’s always had Coke. I went home for the holidays for the first time in a year and wanted food from there some mum went into town to get it. I didn’t bother saying what drink to get, because it’s always been Coke.
Now apparently they have Coke and Pepsi. And for some completely unknown reason that nobody in the world could ever understand, despite never liking Pepsi in my life, assuming mum actually heard one of the 1000 times I’ve said I don’t like Pepsi, she got Pepsi. I’ve never been more bewildered in my life. Here’s a store with both Coke and Pepsi, and somebody, not just somebody but my mum, buying for me, who very publicly can’t stand Pepsi, voluntarily chose Pepsi.
I think I spent the next few days contemplating the point of my existence.
So to answer the question, Coke
Yeah. Sucks to learn that your mother isn’t actually interested in every single minute detail of your life. When you learn this fact that is the day you go from a boy to a man.
Now, next time your home go get your own bloody takeaway.
Are you fucking kidding? Do you honestly think I was being 100% dead set serious with that? The question was Coke or Pepsi, I was over-exaggerating how much I prefer Coke with a silly little story.
Poe’s Law, natch.
Calm down.
Yes, I was kidding. I was going to put in a smiley face to let you know I was but I didn’t. Maybe I should have.
i love pepsi max out of all the selections, but realise the espartame artificial sweetener is f’ing horrible for you. so im gonna break some peoples brains and say that i actually really like Pepsi Next…
oh, and Maccas watered down Coke….
Surely Serrels knows the true winner is Irn Bru. Shame you cant get the proper stuff here.
I’ve always been a Coke guy. I love Coke. BUT. Shit is expensive. If Pepsi is comparatively cheaper – and it almost always is – I’ll get that instead.
It’s a complex question though, because you’re going to get a different taste wherever you go.
I’m guessing Coke (and Pepsi) Australia wide tastes the same, but I hear the Japanese Coke tastes very different (and worse), and I imagine the US Coke probably has more sugar in it or something.
But! Coke and Diet Coke and Coke Zero and Pepsi and Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max all taste different and anyone who says they taste the same are wrong and a bad person.
No joke, one day I bought some ultra-cheap coke with slightly different bottle-caps, and it turns out it was ultra-cheap because it was some kind of import. As soon as I tasted it, all I could think was, “This coke has gone off.” There was something deeply wrong with it. I couldn’t find an expiry date (I honestly didn’t think Coke had one), but after a bit of digging and looking at the label, I discovered that there was no cane sugar in this product. Just corn syrup.
Yeah. No cane sugar. Apparently there are countries which do that to coke. I can’t believe the brand survives in those countries.
(And I’d have upvoted you if you hadn’t admitted to sacrificing taste for financial concerns. HEATHEN. STAY TRUE!)
It was probably from the USA. Due to subsidies to corn growers, high fructose corn syrup is cheaper than cane sugar, so it ends up being used in pretty much everything.
If you want Coke made with cane sugar in the US, you need to look for “Mexican Coke”, which is imported from over the border.
That’s good advice. On an unrelated note the FBI are at my door, I wonder what they want
Oh I can see it now. There I am, homeless on the streets, panhandling for every few coins I can get, thinking “it’s a shame it had to come ti this, but at least I never had to drink Pepsi”
Smug self-satisfaction will warm you on those cold nights better than any ‘shelter’.
It doesn’t really bother me but I tend to buy Coke Zero because collecting those labels resulted in a free PS4 after over a year from the rewards program. Now, hopefully they put a Vita in their rewards program.
As of right now almost 70% for Coke. As if that wasn’t expected, Coke is just better, and more well-known to boot (here in Australia atleast). I have never liked Pepsi, I refuse to drink it, it tastes like Coke with dust in it.
Blind taste-testing, I’ve mistaken pepsi for lemonade. Like… I bought a KFC meal deal from drive-through on a long-haul night-drive. I ordered pepsi because it was the least-worst option available out of nothing but bad options. I cracked open the can in the dark, took a sip, and was about to turn the car around and go get the right drink but passing a streetlight, I saw that it really was pepsi. Disgusting. Filth!
There’s a lot of relativity and subjectivity in almost every facet of the human experience. But liking Pepsi is one of the few things where you can be sure of being categorically wrong.
Pepsi. Because Pepsiman.
http://youtu.be/lhCm0R9aSKI
😛
Pepsi max. I cant stand full strength soft drinks at all any more.
Taste wise I much prefer Coca-Cola over Pepsi but I find that I can barely drink either these days without serious negative physical effects from all the caffeine, sugar & other things.
I won’t drink the diet & caffeine-free versions because they taste horrid.
these days I primarily use colas for cooking because they make excellent sweet sauces for pork, fried chicken wings & other things.
Coke Chicken *drools*
you can make it several ways.
1 is to marinate the chicken (wings or chunked up pieces) in a mixture of coke, dark soy sauce, vinegar & spices overnight & then batter & fry the chicken (or stirfry or grill). You then make a sauce with the remain coke, mixed with a little vinegar for a sweet-sour taste & some corn flour mixed with water to thicken it up. Cook it in a wok or saucepan to reduce/thicken before adding meat to it.
Otherwise, just cook the meat as you like & mix with the sauce as above. Cook sauce & mix in a bowl with meat.
The other method for chicken or pork pieces is to simmer it in coke mixed with what every you like until the coke reduces & the meat is cooked.
If you’re making pulled pork, all you have to do it put a light rub on the meat, brown & then chuck in the slow cooker. You can add the coke aright away or after an hour, just make sure it’s at room temperature do it doesn’t hinder the cooking process.
By the time the pork is able to be pulled away with a fork, the coke should be a nice syrup that you can mix with the meat.
Coke. I’ll drink Pepsi, but I’d honestly rather something else. Speaking of which, 30 cans of Coke for 20 over a Coles in the Brisbane area. Bought a pack yesterday, though not sure if deals roll over today or yesterday.
Tiger and Bunny madness! Pepsi!
http://media.animevice.com/uploads/0/4479/551862-vlcsnap_000075.png
Everyone loves cok
Pepsi Max or bust
Coke all the way. Though my personal favourite is Vanilla Coke.
Bundaberg Lemon Lime & Bitters.
*Aggressively puts on sunglasses*
Pepsi Max > Coke > Pepsi > Coke Zero.
Full strength coke > Pepsi
Pepsi Max > Coke Zero / Diet Coke.